This is the only book in Turner’s Darnley Mills series I hadn’t read, so I recently paid too much for it to complete the series. The final book, Skull Island, was reviewed here some time ago. There are two intertwined threads in the Darnley Mills books, this is the final one in the historical series, […]

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22.12.2024

Rereading: THE BLACK STALLION REVOLTS by Walter Farley - Todd's Blog

By the ninth book of this series, author Farley was casting around for a new approach, and he found it here by sending Alec Ramsey AND his famous wild stallion The Black out west. Many writers might have begun simply with that premise, but Farley ups the odds by having their private plane crash in […]

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23.12.2024

My Music: IF WISHES WERE - Todd's Blog

This is the first song for which I have a written composition date in my notebooks, it’s July 4th, 1971. At that time I was recently back from my first stay in Kansas City, working at a summer job at Freight Traffic Services in Far Hills, NJ, co-owned by the father of my friend Randy, […]

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25.12.2024

Rereading: PROBLEM PARTY by M. E. Atkinson - Todd's Blog

The tenth book in Atkinson’s holiday adventure series about the Lockett family and their friends is unusually complex, as it gathers many of the characters from the previous nine books to an elaborate house party over the Christmas holidays. It begins with Evelyn Standish, the girl met in “The Monster of Widgeon Weir” who wears […]

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